Brocade Monastery
As a small landlocked kingdom in the Himalayas, Bhutan is a sovereign and self-sufficient but unknown to the outside world for most of its existence until mid-20th century. Cultural wealth of the country and the environment remained almost completely contaminated. Buddhism influences the daily life and strength like no other one can experience Living Buddhism in Bhutan.
Bhutan is the abode of the gods, and home of the immortals of the Himalayas. In addition to majesty and grandeur of nature, has a special environment where communion with the divine was possible through contemplation and meditation. It is Therefore, since time immemorial, ascetics, scholars, philosophers and pilgrims have been drawn irresistibly to these remote mountains and wild in their personal quest for wisdom, inspiration, solitude and happiness. For centuries, the place has been blessed by these people with a precious spiritual legacy which makes the place conducive to meditation.
Dance and religious music
Dances Religious leaders are called 'Cham' and many of them. The dancers wear costumes and spectacular silk brocade yellow, often decorated with bone ornaments coveted. For some dances, wearing masks depicting animals, deities fearsome, skull and manifestations of Guru Rimpoche or humans, to dry. The masks are so heavy that dancers to protect against injury by joining their heads with strips of fabric to support the mask. The dancers see through the mouth opening.
The dances are based on the religious example of ordinary people, giving the idea of good and evil, God and evil which are explained through the dances and the sentence of death. Purification and protection from a place of evil spirits, Dance cremation. Dance of the gods feared, Dance of Guru Rinpoche, with eight races, black magic Hat Dance performance, dance and deer hunting dog dance morality of princes and princesses and Ngachham famous Dramitse (drum dance). His name and fame spread as widely Dramitse Ngachham because the dance was originally composed Dramitse Monastery in eastern Bhutan. Dance masks are the faces of the 16 animals representing the 58 figures and 42 wrathful deities smooth. (Zhithro Dhampir Rigi). It is believed anyone who attended the dance would receive eternal peace and prosperity, when it becomes ultimately his soul into this existence time. Ngachham originality is very well preserved and practiced today in the monastery Dramitse under the leadership of His Eminence and Abbot Sungtruel Rinpoche.
About the Author:
Sangay Choxang, Managing Director, Asian Adventure Travel, Thimphu Bhutan, Contact:sangaystar@yahoo.com
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